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Unread 07-04-2017, 02:39 PM
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Recommend listening to Leonard Cohen's "The Traitor" all the way through.
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Unread 07-05-2017, 08:26 AM
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Roger, The Iris DeMent song My Life is arrestingly, simply beautiful. We’ve heard the same thing said in so many other more complicated and circuitous ways but this is as plainly spoken as her singing voice is. Thanks for the link.
I noticed another song of hers titled, Let The Mystery Be and gave it a listen and again I was astounded by her simplicity. It is something of a companion song to My Life, I think.

I saw in one of the comments, “Agnostic country music. Who’da thunk?” and that is my sentiment too.
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Unread 07-05-2017, 08:43 AM
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Gail, yes to "The Traitor" and this, too.
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Unread 07-05-2017, 09:41 AM
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Jim, I'm so glad you liked the Iris DeMent. "Let the Mystery Be" is also one of my favorites of hers. Perhaps her best known song, Our Town, she claims is the very first song she ever wrote (she started writing fairly late in life), which is hard to believe. Among my other favorites that she wrote are No Time to Cry (which, of course, may make you cry), and "The Night I Learned How Not to Pray," though I can't find a decent YouTube of that (only live performances that aren't well recorded and don't do justice to the song).

At the top of her form (where you don't always find her), I think she has a sensational voice. Here is her in duet with John Prine (great song by Prine), and here she is doing a song that she didn't write (but I forget who did).

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One of the top songs-I-wish-I-wrote is "That Lucky Old Sun." I used to think the Johnny Cash version was the very best, but then I found this one by Aretha that may take top honors (my favorite performance by her of any song). It's also been done by Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, and lots of other people.
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The Cash cover of "That Lucky Old Sun" is magnificent. I'm one of those who claims not to like country music but then am enamored by it.

A singer who died in obscurity (though that is not unusual) that blew me away when I heard her voice and her life story is Eva Cassidy. Here she is singing the song that everyone knows as Judy Garland's. She treats and sings it with such reverence.

But to the subject, the song I wish I had written is Paul Simon's, " Sound of Silence".
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But to the subject, the song I wish I had written is Paul Simon's, " Sound of Silence".
wow, the last comment was my answer

I loved watching the ending of disturbed's cover of it, where an ark of instruments is sent to the people...

As a musician (Bassist), I find it's easier to convey my emotions through bass than through words. I can only fathom the beauty of ten thousand minds playing harmoniously that could only think in terms of music.
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Not an image and not something I wish were mine, but in a song from Reasonable Doubt Jay-Z rhymes "lexuses" with "exorcist" and that is just brilliant.
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That is indeed inspired Aaron. Ha!
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Unread 07-30-2017, 12:09 PM
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I've been in Dylan land again recently. While listening to "Blonde on Blonde" I was avoiding "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." I wasn't in the mood, I thought, for the dirge. My chance I was driving and wasn't able to skip the song and resigned myself to listening to it and was choked up in about 30 seconds. Previously Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row on Hwy#61 had hit me pretty hard but for some reason this refrain:


My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I put them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?


which I had heard several thousand times before hit me as though I'd never heard it. Dylan is the first artist to teach me about the language of imagination. I wish I'd paid more attention way back then.
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Unread 07-30-2017, 07:26 PM
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if we're edging into hip hop - the lord of slant rhyme storytelling is the inimitable GFK, the most avant garde word painter in the history of rap.

Pretty little Sally sat up by the tree trunk
White miniskirt with a Betty Boom bump
She had a ass like Deborah Cox, face like Lauryn
Waist like a Coke bottle scoring
Pretty young thing loved the swings
And times she got my ding-a-ling hard
When she said push hard, she kept Vaseline
Open as she swung back, couldn't help her dress blue back
Now held accountable right for my actions
Right before the Wallabee Champ was rocking wallows
Drawing crads, sent her rap message through a bottle
Lines from Dolomite, few tips from Goin's
Birthday, gave her two 50 cent coins
Puppy love, gorgeous face, amazed by lip gloss
Cherry cent, when the princess spoke yo it bounced off
Mole like Marilyn Monroe, threw a rose in her mouth
Wherever God go will be Mrs. Coles
Girl's so pretty, kids with little niddys
Hope the years go slow, slow
Surrounded by intelligence, life through education
Healthy minds will grow, grow
Catch me on a bus-stop, dusting, cursing out
The cops are still coming, vibe with me
Everybody's talking about Wu-Tang fronting
But you still telling lies to me.

The swings lyric, especially.

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